- 1. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of what field of study?
A) Genetics
B) Botany
C) Astronomy
D) Physics
- 2. In what year did Gregor Mendel publish his work on genetics?
A) 1866
B) 1800
C) 1900
D) 2000
- 3. What term is used to describe the unit of heredity Mendel studied?
A) Protein
B) Gene
C) Nucleus
D) Chromosome
- 4. What is the term for an organism's genetic makeup?
A) Heredity
B) Genotype
C) Mutation
D) Phenotype
- 5. In a monohybrid cross, how many traits are typically studied?
A) One
B) Two
C) Four
D) Three
- 6. What term describes the appearance of an organism resulting from its genotype?
A) Heredity
B) Phenotype
C) Mutation
D) Genotype
- 7. In Mendel's experiments, what term describes the offspring resulting from a cross between the parental generations?
A) F2 generation
B) G1 generation
C) F1 generation
D) P generation
- 8. Mendel's Law of Segregation describes the separation of ________ during the formation of gametes.
A) Genes
B) Traits
C) Chromosomes
D) Alleles
- 9. Which of the following describes a genotype with two different alleles for a gene?
A) Heterozygous
B) Recessive
C) Homozygous
D) Dominant
- 10. Mendel demonstrated that traits are inherited independently during which of his experiments?
A) Test cross
B) Monohybrid cross
C) Backcross
D) Dihybrid cross
- 11. What nationality was Gregor Mendel by birth?
A) Moravian
B) Austrian
C) German
D) Czech
- 12. In which city did Mendel conduct his famous pea plant experiments?
A) Brno
B) Vienna
C) Olomouc
D) Prague
- 13. What was Gregor Mendel's original name before joining the Order of Saint Augustine?
A) Řehoř
B) Gregor
C) Johann
D) Anton
- 14. Which field was Gregor Mendel NOT known to have worked in?
A) Meteorology
B) Biology
C) Chemistry
D) Mathematics
- 15. What did farmers know for millennia that Mendel's experiments scientifically established?
A) Chromosome pairing
B) Crossbreeding can favor certain traits
C) DNA structure
D) Genetic mutations
- 16. How many characteristics of pea plants did Mendel study in his experiments?
A) Ten
B) Three
C) Seven
D) Five
- 17. What term did Mendel use to describe traits that disappear in the first filial generation but reappear later?
A) Recessive
B) Hybrid
C) Dominant
D) Blended
- 18. Who were the scientists that independently verified Mendel's findings in 1900?
A) James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins
B) Erich von Tschermak, Hugo de Vries, and Carl Correns
C) Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Thomas Huxley
D) Gregor Mendel, Charles Lyell, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- 19. Who played the organ at Mendel's funeral?
A) Christian Doppler
B) Leoš Janáček
C) Aleksander Zawadzki
D) Johann Karl Nestler
- 20. What was the prevalent theory of inheritance during Mendel's lifetime before his work gained recognition?
A) Genetic linkage
B) Pangenesis
C) Blending inheritance
D) Natural selection
- 21. What did Mendel's family do for a living?
A) Trading
B) Beekeeping
C) Teaching
D) Farming
- 22. What is the wild-type flower color of peas?
A) White
B) Purple
C) Yellow
D) Green
- 23. Which scientist tried to explain inheritance through a theory of pangenesis?
A) Carl Correns
B) Gregor Mendel
C) Hugo de Vries
D) Charles Darwin
- 24. How many times was Mendel's paper cited over the next thirty-five years after its publication?
A) Over a hundred times
B) About three times
C) Fifty times
D) Never
- 25. What was Mendel's professor of physics at the University of Vienna?
A) Friedrich Franz
B) Cyril František Napp
C) Christian Doppler
D) Johann Karl Nestler
- 26. What were the two types of seed shapes Mendel studied in his experiments?
A) Flat or curved
B) Long or short
C) Angular or round
D) Smooth or wrinkled
- 27. What did Daniel L. Hartl and Daniel J. Fairbanks conclude about Fisher's allegations?
A) They agreed with Fisher that Mendel falsified his data.
B) Hartl and Fairbanks believed Fisher correctly interpreted Mendel's experiments.
C) They found that Mendel had indeed committed scientific fraud.
D) Fisher's statistical argument against Mendel was unsupported by convincing evidence.
- 28. What scientific name is given to peas that Gregor Mendel studied?
A) Apis mellifera
B) Mus musculus
C) Hieracium
D) Pisum sativum
- 29. Which gene causes the dwarf phenotype in pea plants?
A) PsChlG
B) PsGA3ox1
C) Pscik2/3
D) PsbHLH
- 30. Which policy rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of Lamarckism in the Soviet Union?
A) Mendelism
B) Lysenkoism
C) Darwinism
D) Neo-Darwinism
- 31. Which gene is responsible for the wrinkled phenotype in peas?
A) Psggr
B) PsGA3ox1
C) PsbHLH
D) PsSBE1
- 32. In which year was Mendel's work rediscovered independently by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns?
A) 1900
B) 1910
C) 1895
D) 1925
- 33. What gene is responsible for the pod shape in peas?
A) PsCLE41
B) PsSGR
C) PsSBE1
D) PsGA3ox1
- 34. What was the cause of Mendel's death in 1884?
A) Heart problems
B) Chronic nephritis
C) Pneumonia
D) Stroke
- 35. What did Mendel's experiments demonstrate about the inheritance of traits?
A) The role of environmental factors
B) The actions of invisible factors (genes) in determining traits
C) The mutation rate in pea plants
D) The importance of hybrid vigor
- 36. Who coined the term 'genetics' and contributed to publicizing Mendel's theory?
A) Thomas Hunt Morgan
B) Karl Pearson
C) R. A. Fisher
D) William Bateson
- 37. How many pea plants did Mendel cultivate and test between 1856 and 1863?
A) 28,000
B) 30,000
C) 25,000
D) 20,000
- 38. Who encouraged Mendel's research in Brno?
A) Johann Karl Nestler
B) Aleksander Zawadzki
C) Friedrich Franz
D) Christian Doppler
- 39. Which university did Mendel attend for his studies in philosophy and physics?
A) University of Olomouc
B) Charles University in Prague
C) University of Vienna
D) University of Brno
- 40. What was the name of the school that opposed Mendelian genetics based on statistical studies?
A) Biometric school
B) Mendelian school
C) Neo-Darwinian school
D) Lamarckian school
- 41. What year did Mendel fail his exams' oral part to become a certified high school teacher?
A) 1853
B) 1867
C) 1850
D) 1851
- 42. Who combined Mendelian genetics with Darwin's theory of natural selection in the modern synthesis?
A) R. A. Fisher
B) Thomas Hunt Morgan
C) Karl Pearson
D) Ernst Mayr
- 43. Who recommended Mendel to enter the Augustinian St Thomas's Abbey in Brno?
A) Johann Karl Nestler
B) Friedrich Franz
C) Aleksander Zawadzki
D) Cyril František Napp
- 44. What year did Mendel become abbot of the monastery?
A) 1862
B) 1868
C) 1867
D) 1856
- 45. Why did Mendel become a monk?
A) To obtain an education without paying for it himself
B) Due to family pressure
C) To escape military service
D) For religious devotion
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